Yevheniya Barvinska
{{short description|Ukrainian pianist (1854–1913)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Yevheniia Maksymovna Barvinska
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| othername =
| birth_name = Yevheniia Liubovych
| birth_date = 20 December 1854
| birth_place = Lemburg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire
| death_date = 20 December 1913
| death_place = Lemburg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
(today Lviv, Ukraine)
| burial_place = Lychakiv Cemetery
| nationality = Ukrainian
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| occupation = Pianist, conductor, soprano
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| spouse = Oleksander Barvinsky
| children = Six
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Yevheniia Maksymivna Barvinska or Yevheniya Barvinsʼka (nee Liubovych, 1854–1913), was a Ukrainian pianist, choral conductor and singer (soprano), who promoted the music of Ukrainian composers.
Biography
Yevheniia Liubovych was born on 20 December 1854 in Lemburg, Austrian Galicia (today Lviv, Ukraine) to Maksymiliian Liubovych and Olena Studynska.
She graduated from the Teachers' Institute, Lemburg, in 1874, and studied piano privately with Karol Mikuli, the director of the Lemberg Conservatory.{{Cite web |title=Vasyl Barvinsky |url=https://www.ukrainianartsong.ca/vasyl-barvinsky |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Ukrainian Art Song Project |language=en-US}} Her next music teacher, Fr. Amvrosii, was the Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Amvrosii Krushelnytskyi, whose daughter, Solomiya Krushelnytska, was a friend and who gained international fame as a soprano. With Fr. Amvrosii, Yevheniia organized and conducted the men's and women's choirs in Ternopil (1882–1886).{{Cite web |last=Mazepa |first=L. Z. |date=2003 |title=Барвінська Євгенія Максимівна — Енциклопедія Сучасної України (Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine) |url=https://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=40492 |access-date=2022-03-05 |website=esu.com.ua}}
Yevheniia married the educator and politician Oleksander Barvinsky (1847–1926) and they raised six children, Olha Bachynska (1874–1955), Bohdan Barvinskyi (1880–1958), Roman (1881–1947), Olena Savchuk (1883–1962), Vasyl Barvinsky (1888–1963) and Oleksander Barvinskyi (1889–1957).{{Cite web |title=Barvinsky, Oleksander |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CB%5CA%5CBarvinskyOleksander.htm |access-date=2022-03-05 |website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com}} Vasyl, whose first music teacher was Yevheniia, went on to become an accomplished composer later in life.{{Cite web |title=Barvinsky, Vasyl |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CB%5CA%5CBarvinskyVasyl.htm |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com}}File:Tomb of Barvinskyi family (1).jpg
In 1891, Yevheniia Barvinska became the conductor of the Lemburg choir of the Boyan Society through which she continued to promote the work of Ukrainian composers.
Barvinska died on 20 December 1913 in Lemburg.
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Category:20th-century Ukrainian women musicians
Category:20th-century Ukrainian classical pianists
Category:Women classical pianists